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Chernobyl packet
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/chernohb@l pak'@t/ , n. A network packet that induces a broadcast storm
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and/or network meltdown , in memory of the April 1986 nuclear accident at
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Chernobyl in Ukraine. The typical scenario involves an IP Ethernet datagram
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that passes through a gateway with both source and destination Ether and IP
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address set as the respective broadcast addresses for the subnetworks being
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gated between. Compare Christmas tree packet.
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